Craig Smith

Psalm 93:1, 90:2, 119:137



We come to Thee, O Lord, and bow

Before the King of Israel

God of strength and majesty

Sacrifices of praise we bring to Thee



Chorus

Jehovah, Jehovah

From age to age He is the same

Jehovah, Jehovah

Holy and righteous is Thy name



We praise Thy name, O Lord, with song

Honor and glory to our God belong

Lord of splendor we proclaim

All heaven and earth do You sustain



Chorus



Praise the name of Jehovah our Lord! When David wrote the Psalms, he

could look across the horizon and see the sunrise. He could marvel at

the Lord's creation and sing His praises. I can imagine David lying in the

grass looking up at the clouds by day and gazing at the hundreds of

stars on a clear night, penning Psalm 147. His psalms span the earth and

the seasons describing clouds and rain, snow and frost, lightning and

hail. The magnificent creation that surrounds us today.



Last summer some friends invited my wife and me to join them in Colorado

for a weekend on a beautiful mountain like. As the sun beamed down on us

in our fishing boat, we were forced to shed jackets and long-sleeved

shirts and enjoy a hot, summer day, while surrounded by breathtaking

snow-capped mountains. The glory of God and His divine nature are truly

broadcast by His creation! (Romans 1:20) He sustains this same heaven

and earth from David's day and before, to our day and beyond.



Thousands of years after David with our powerful telescopes, we know

much more about our world. We now know the temperature of the sun and

its distance from us. We know that our earth rotates around the sun 365

times each year. We also know that if the sun was hotter or colder we

couldn't survive. If it was closer or farther away we could not exist.

The more knowledge we have, the more reason for us to know our

existence is not by chance. Yesterday's television changed our

perspective, today it is computers, and tomorrow it may be

supercomputers. God has allowed us to develop a very complex world.

He has provided us the intelligence and the natural resources. We must

not lose our perspective; we are still living in God's creation. And He

still loves our praises! We just have more to praise Him for as we

discover more what He has given us.--David Stubblefield